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Alice's at 50: Thanksgiving not complete without Guthrie (50th Anniversary)
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| 11/24/2015
| Karen Lee Ziner
Posted on 11/26/2015 5:12:41 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
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PBS is broadcasting the 50th Anniversary Concert tonight. Check your local listings. Whatever your political leanings you have to admit that the song is clever and entertaining but what I like most about it that you can really annoy liberals by telling them that Arlo is a registered Republican.
Arlo Guthrie Comes Clean - Registered Republican
To: Kid Shelleen
I put that envelope under that garbage.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:16:39 AM PST
by
samtheman
(I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
To: samtheman
No time for aging Sixties hippie draft dodgers here.
My draft number was “9” and I went. Screw Guthrie and his Stalinist commie old man.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:26:11 AM PST
by
elcid1970
("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
To: Kid Shelleen
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:27:24 AM PST
by
laker_dad
To: Kid Shelleen
Very funny song. To this day, I still quote the line to my students, “I was sittin’ on the Group W bench with the oppressed, repressed, suppressed . . . the mother rapers . . . the father stabbers . . . the FATHER RAPERS . . . .”
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:27:56 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: Kid Shelleen
I don’t even think about Alice or her restaurant on Thanksgiving Day or any other day for that matter.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:28:24 AM PST
by
equaviator
(There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
To: samtheman
Wait for it to come around again on the guitar...
To: elcid1970
Thank you for your service. By the time I turned 18 the draft was winding down, so I never got called. Still like this song though.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:35:01 AM PST
by
laker_dad
To: LS
Sadly few if any people in the modern workforce know of 1960's cultural references. You know the blank stares and their wanting to call security on you. So glad I am now retired.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:35:42 AM PST
by
buckalfa
(I am feeling much better now.)
To: elcid1970
My husband’s draft # was 8 so he enlisted.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:36:47 AM PST
by
heylady
To: laker_dad
My roommate and I wrote a parody of Alice’s Restraunt when we were at the Air Force Academy in the early 70’s. It was called Mitch’s Restraunt and we performed it in a talent show. The commanding officer corps did not appreciate it but the cadets gave us a standing ovation.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:36:48 AM PST
by
Laserman
To: buckalfa
I know. Heck, they don’t get half my jokes. And my jokes are funny.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:37:33 AM PST
by
LS
("Castles Made of Sand, Fall in the Sea . . . Eventually" (Hendrix))
To: elcid1970
It says he was rejected, not that he dodged. I do not know the details.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:38:41 AM PST
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samtheman
(I will build a great, great wall on our southern border... - DT)
To: Kid Shelleen
It always puzzled me that this song was so popular among liberals considering the lyrics. For some reason, liberals gravitate towards grizzled men strumming folk songs on acoustic guitars (or women with long straight hair and no makeup doing the same). They think it is authentic like "organic artesian goat cheese" that sells for $12 a pound at the Whole Foods.
Years ago I had company over on Thanksgiving that insisted on playing that song in front of elderly relatives that have since passed on. They thought that these old folks were going to be entertained or enlightened by it. They sat through the entire 20 minutes in stony silence. Definitely an awkward moment!
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:40:47 AM PST
by
SamAdams76
(It's time we sent a junkyard dog to Washington to run the low life out)
To: samtheman
I don’t want a pickle....
To: Kid Shelleen
I used to enjoy my trips to the real Alice’s Restaurant, because it always involved a motorcycle ride. One of the few things I miss about living in the Bay Area.
http://www.alicesrestaurant.com/
To: Kid Shelleen
I’ve always enjoyed Alice’s Restaurant but his “City of New Orleans” is one of his best and I never get tired of listening to it.........
To: Kid Shelleen
How does the 50th anniversary of a 1967 song occur in 2015, anyway? Common Core math? Or did the PBS people “identify” this as the 50th anniversary, therefore it is?
To: Hot Tabasco
Iâve always enjoyed Aliceâs Restaurant but his âCity of New Orleansâ is one of his best and I never get tired of listening to it......... Steve Goodman wrote that one, of course, but Arlo made if famous.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:54:42 AM PST
by
KevinB
(Barack Obama: Our first black, gay, Kenyan, Socialist, Muslim president!)
To: LS
I used the line
" twenty-seven 8x10 color glossy photographs with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explainin' what each one was"
at work in a conversation at work. One coworker got it and burst out laughing. The millennials had blank looks on their faces.
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posted on
11/26/2015 5:56:30 AM PST
by
csvset
( Illegitimi non carborundum)
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